{
  "meta": {
    "schema_version": "1.1",
    "endpoint": "/api/sources/tao-te-ching/25-chapter-25.json"
  },
  "work": {
    "slug": "tao-te-ching",
    "name": "Tao Te Ching"
  },
  "parents": [],
  "chapter": {
    "num": 25,
    "slug": "25-chapter-25",
    "title": "Chapter 25 — The Four Great",
    "of": 81,
    "words": 164,
    "text": "## Chapter 25\n\n\nThere was something undefined and complete, coming into\nexistence before Heaven and Earth. How still it was and formless,\nstanding alone, and undergoing no change, reaching everywhere and in\nno danger (of being exhausted)! It may be regarded as the Mother of\nall things.\n\nI do not know its name, and I give it the designation of the Tao\n(the Way or Course). Making an effort (further) to give it a name I\ncall it The Great.\n\nGreat, it passes on (in constant flow). Passing on, it becomes\nremote. Having become remote, it returns. Therefore the Tao is\ngreat; Heaven is great; Earth is great; and the (sage) king is also\ngreat. In the universe there are four that are great, and the (sage)\nking is one of them.\n\nMan takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from\nHeaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its\nbeing what it is.",
    "project_translation": false,
    "license": null,
    "methodology_url": null
  }
}